“Considered alongside these well-established trends, the fact that Democrats represent districts that are (on average) more unequal than Republican districts suggests that the parties may have such divergent views on income inequality in part because their members (and constituents) have divergent experiences of income inequality.”

Slicing up the data a different way highlights the degree to which Democrats dominate the most unequal districts.

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This really isn’t so surprising. I don’t think I’m making a revolutionary insight by pointing out that urban areas are heavily Democratic due to large middle/poorer class populations but also serve as headquarters of big businesses and their well-to-do owners/managers, who make up a relatively small part of the population.